It’s just three blocks down Hewitt from Prohibition, where Trabue cooked for about four years until getting canned five months ago during the show’s production. His wife, Sylvia, continued to work there as a server until a month ago.

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Trabue, 47, said he’s always wanted to have his own restaurant. The flames in the logo of Ole Soul are a tribute to Ramsay. “Our thing is to thank Gordon for lighting a fire under me,” he said.

The menu has grits, greens and other Southern fare that was the Prohibition’s mainstay before Ramsay intervened and changed the menu and the name from Grille to Gastropub, in part because there was no grill.

“I have a grill. A big, brand-new grill,” Trabue said. “When we first got this place it had two giant woks and I go, ‘I can’t make any Southern food off woks.’”

The restaurant, formerly a Thai restaurant, came equipped with bright red walls, a big front window and a small back patio. It’s tucked in an industrial block at the west end of Hewitt.

Trabue said he has no ill will toward Prohibition owner Rishi Brown, adding that there’s more to the story than shown on the “reality” TV show.

When contacted for this story, Brown said she was told by Fox TV not to comment on the matter.

Trabue is portrayed on the show as inept, uncaring and unlikable.

His explanation: “I’m not a big showboat. They wanted more drama. I wasn’t going to feed into it. I believe fame is earned.”

Still, you know what they say about any publicity being good publicity.